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Only professional, certified operatives can service your vehicle and hand it back to you preserving the same quality standards as the day it left the factory. Genuine or equivalent spare parts are designed to guarantee the best in the matter of reliability, comfort and efficiency for you and your car.

Beware of counterfeit spare parts, which are often of low quality and may cause damage to your vehicle and yourself.

CLIMATE CONTROL SYSTEM

Nowadays, climate control is no longer considered as optional or luxury, but as standard vehicle equipment, and over 80% of vehicles on the road are fitted with it.

An increase in glazed surface and longer journey times are some of the reasons why climate control is now more important than ever before in terms of on-board comfort. In winter it assists with rapid demisting, controlling the humidity level in the passenger compartment to improve visibility and driving safety. Thanks to the passenger compartment filters, even the quality of the air generated in the passenger compartment is now better than ever before.

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It compresses cooling gas, increasing temperature and pressure. Precision is the main feature which impacts on your car’s safety, comfort and energysavings. It contains moving parts lubricated with special oil, characteristics adapted to a refrigeration circuit: always fluid, compatible with the refrigerant and electrically insulating. If the oil looks cloudy, wash out the circuit thoroughly as soon as possible.

The condenser is a heat exchanger which cools and liquefies the coolant gas coming from the compressor. It is made up mainly of tubes (the primary exchange surface) and fins (the secondary exchange surface). The condenser is located at the front of the vehicle, in front of or next to the radiator.The condenser transfers heat to the environment, because its temperature is higher than the surrounding one. The air passes through the condenser fin, and, by removing heat, causes the cooling fluid to liquefy.Under normal usage conditions, the condenser does not need to be replaced throughout the vehicle's lifetime. Given its position, however, it can be easily damaged in the case of a front impact.The use of sub cooling modules is on the increase, which as well as offering a condensing function, also act as a drier.

There are two kinds of filters, depending on whether the system is the dry or wet: this applies to the drier filter and the accumulator. It primary function is to filter solid particles, preventing the expansion valve from clogging and keeps the cooling gas dry. The other filter ensures that only coolant in gaseous form reaches the compressor. When you change the compressor always remember to replace the drier filter too.

In an event of a gas leak closed under, it undergoes a sharp drop in pressure and when it expands, it causes cooling. An example? Think of a normal spray can: if you let out all its contents, in a few seconds it gets colder and colder until it freezes. In an air conditioning system, this is pretty much what the expansion valve does: it regulates the coolant flow and temperature.

Identical to the condenser in design, the evaporator has the opposite function. Inside it, the coolant goes from liquid to gas, absorbing the heat from the environment. The air that goes through its flaps is cooled, moves through the passenger compartment filter, and gets to you via the air ducts.

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There is quite a clear distinction between the air conditioner and the climate control

The difference between air conditioner and climate control is that the air conditioner can only provide cool air, while the climate control performs both heating and cooling. The first uses the characteristics of gas to heat or cool if subjected to different pressures and physical stress. There are three kinds depending on how they are operated: manual, semi-automatic and automatic. The climate control can vary according to the areas set individually and can be single, double, triple and quadruple area.

These days temperatures are made to order: yours

The thermal comfort that people feel is not just a question of thermometer readings but it varies according to different agents and situations. An example? The heat you feel in the sun at zero degrees in the mountains or the coolness of fanned air in a very hot room. In the most sophisticated climate control systems, complicated algorithms nowadays let you anticipate and compensate climate variations inside and outside the passenger compartment.

Coolant leaks have a short life

Unfortunately, in climate controlled systems, it often happens that the cooling circuit doesn’t hold steady, this is caused by the diminishing amount of cooling gas, causing a reduction in performance until it breaks down altogether. It is for this reason that you need to check for all leaks possible in such cases. How? With the various leakdetectors available: contrast solutions, electronic detectors, foams that react with cooling gas.

Even climate controls need to be kept in check

To keep your climate control efficient at all times, you need to keep it running often. Use it in winter too to demist your windows, or at the end of a long trip, and especially in wet, rainy weather, aerate the air ducts for several minutes before stopping. This way you limit the formation of moulds and bacteria caused by the humidity, which is responsible for foul odours and allergic reactions. Lastly, it is a good rule to refill the cooling gas every two years.

SELF-EVALUATION

Not very conditioned airIf you feel your air conditioner is not working as expected, you might need to look for leaks and then refill your cooling gas. We advise you to refill the gas every two years. If you do this regularly, the system will last longer, because the gas also contains lubricant for the compressor.

Windows mist up oftenWhen the windows of your car are often misty even with the climate control on, maybe there is too little air flow in your passenger compartment. And this is because the compartmentfilter is too full of impurities or clogged by prolonged use. In this case, you need to see a Fiat Dealership to replace it as soon as possible.

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